Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

As a trader of spices in 500BC, you most definitely had to consider customer expectations, profit margins, and the emergence of new techniques for preserving your product. So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

For most companies it’s bad news?—?the We ask you to keep calm and to follow the plans you are given diligently. They develop new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than their rivals do in R&D and marketing, and they invest in assets such as plants and machinery.” But not for all.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Lists of trends that survey the past should be easier by definition, right? Agile vs. agile. Are you Agile, or are you agile?” As others have said , the idea that Agile methodologies are a thing of the past is a gross exaggeration. They focus on the results that the team is looking for.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. It’s a change in approach that’s driven by demands for more agility and greater velocity from the time a problem is identified to the time that a product is released. . Written Methods. Visual Methods.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. It definitely doesn’t delight users or reduce friction. Most often, it won’t matter if it’s not intentional or was initiated by a bad actor from outside the company, If things go sideways, it could even result in a permanent shutdown. Full, thorough code reviews rarely occur anymore.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. The company has 14 partners, and at any point in time, each one curates a separate project with its separate team. and Facebook.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . Applying this approach designed for Kanban can dramatically accelerate the forming and improvements of a Scrum team. What is the current way of working?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most of us have been through the results of poor management of bugs: hair-on-fire, last-minute late nights to madly scrambling to critical fix bugs blocking a release, or stopping a customer from using a product. Does your organisation provide you and your team with direct access to customers, or are there gatekeepers?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Not just in product reviews, roadmap meetings, or design critiques from product people, but across the company. There are several common patterns among failed solutions: The team didn’t have a good understanding of the problem to begin with. Your product is a system. Problem definition is hard.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Biggest – it represents an alternative to All Those Other Agile Methodologies That Everybody Uses. Shape Up occupies the same territory, serves the same function, as Those Various Agile Methodologies. ” So what is Shape Up?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

In this article I will discuss the unique nature of AI-based products and its influence on the development process and the usability. What should be the KPIs for the data scientists’ teams? Should we be using agile methods? The decision directs our data teams what to focus on to generate such an experience.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

As I shared in the prior newsletter , being a product person means that by definition you're living in a world where no one knows the right answer yet because if somebody did, they would've already built it. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

So I decided to write a complete guide on getting your team from where they are, to fully using OKRs in 30 days. How to have meetings with the team, what to cover, how to get low performing teams back on track and then how to persuade everyone in the company to use them too. I also make sure to cover the more human elements.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. So I definitely was really worried about those stairs. Why does everyone come to me about Agile Methodology?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

TL;DR: Webinar Product Backlog Anti-Patterns The third Hands-on Agile webinar product backlog anti-patterns covers common problems from out-dated and oversized tickets to the part-time proxy product owner and his or her idea repository. It covers more than 160 scrum anti-patterns that hold your scrum team back. That’s my world.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

3) Most companies use weak heuristics, opinions and archaic decision processes to place bets on a handful of unproven ideas. The alternative is of course evidence-driven product development. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As we look at what it takes to develop non-gaming VR products, their separation from gaming becomes very important. Developing business products in VR, however, is like creating a new sport by combining American Football and what the rest of the world calls Football. So what does all of this mean for product development?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute. It’s not often clear how much time that a product manager should be spending on influencing or developing one, or at what level. Is the team delivering value every sprint?

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

This is the sequel to my post Shape Up Your Agile , about the book Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Basecamp ’s Ryan Singer. We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. In effect, we are saying: “Here you go, dev team. And shipping!)

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

One is that some stuff around product and team and building a new, a new breakout, very different product to the one that you’ve got. And then you just lose track of who’s doing what and what’s due when and you don’t know where the feedback is. Basecamp was able to fund the development of hey.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

She is also one of the most regularly published authors in the Harvard Business Review. Do you empower small, agile teams? And I’m not saying that’s good or bad. My mother’s definition of quality in clothing would be a little different. Are there resources available for little bets?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

You’ll hear from the product managers that led the ideation, planning, and development of these products, and get their unique insights into the ways each of them can uplevel your customers’ experience with your company. So when you see a spike in demand, you can meet it, no matter what size your team is. “We We’re here for you.”

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I wanna, first of all, thank Tom and the whole marketing team for putting this show together, can we get a round of applause for them? The other thing they have in common is that they have, you know, chief design officers, they have a big research team, they really care about design. In the meantime, take it away, Alfonso… ?.

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